Forgotten News

Published: Tue, 04/24/18

Hey !

Okay, I have to apologize right off the bat here. You know that party I threw last month? Well, I kind of made a big announcement about an upcoming Gloomhaven expansion. And I should have written to you soon after to tell you about it, too, but I forgot.

So here I am, a month later, telling you about an exciting new Gloomhaven expansion you probably already know about!

If you want to read more about it, you can check out the BGG page. The main thing is, though, that all the new content is designed by my friend Marcel, who made a lot of great content for the original game, and he's really come up with a lot of innovative new stuff that I think people are really going to enjoy. And we're hoping to have it in retail by Essen (not going to Kickstarter with this one).

But, yeah, the party was great. Thanks to everyone who came out and celebrated with me. Between that and International Tabletop Day on Saturday, I don't think I need any sort of party for my birthday (which happens to be today). Though I did appreciate getting A Feast for Odin from my wife. I've played it three times now, and each play has been more enjoyable than the last, so I figured it was time to add it to the collection. It may even become a top 10!

Other than the party and my birthday, I also went down to South By Southwest last month, which you can read about here. Board games are woefully underrepresented at the convention, but it was fun nonetheless, and Gloomhaven got a cool arrow trophy!

Also vegan tacos, which may have been just as good.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, though. Con season is fast approaching in force, poised to gobble up many more months of my life (but in a good way). It all starts with Protospiel Indy next weekend, which you should go to if you are in the area and have a game that needs play testing or you just like to play test other people's games.

Then there is Geekway to the West two weeks after that, then HeavyCon the following week, then UK Games Expo the week after that, and Origins two weeks after that! If I survive, I should have lots of fun stories to tell. And the best part is that I'll be going to most of them with my wife. (And I hope to see you at one of them as well!)

Before I go, I should probably address the question on many, many people's minds. I could not tell you how many times I have been asked on every front when the next printing of Gloomhaven is arriving. And while I don't have a definitive answer, I will do my best to explain what is going on.

So we're printing a lot more copies. It may fulfill the current demand. It may not, but it is what I could afford to print and it is a lot. And if anyone is familiar with how the second printing went down, you know that producing a lot of copies takes a lot of time. This isn't your standard board game. It takes the factory a significant amount of time to physically construct every game box.

Right now, I estimate they are somewhere around 1/3 of the way through assembling all of the copies. The first few batches are already well on their way to my distribution broker, but they want to wait for the entire printing to come in before sending anything out to distributors, because that is the most efficient and fair way to do it.

So it really comes down to how much longer it is going to take to assemble the rest of the boxes. I estimate it will take another month (which I will emphasize is just an estimate). From there, it is another month to get to the distribution warehouse, and then it could be in stores around two weeks after that.

So the beginning of July. But it really is just an estimate.

Okay, with that said, I'm going to let you go. Until next time!